Well, quite. He's presenting himself as the adult in the room, talking gravely about Law Law Law but to me it just shows a continued investment in a broken system. Or more precisely: a childish faith in the promises made by the spokespeople of a system which the real powers-that-be never had any intention of adhering to, certainly not if it affected their own geopolitical goals. Finkelstein does the same, even though he of all people should know how utterly ineffective the vaunted international bodies have been in offering any meaningful protection to the Palestinians. The only countries that have so far had some success in resisting the insatiable appetites of the current global hegemon have done so through actions considered illegal by the two-faced weasel lawyers of the imperial west (apologies to weasels). That's why Putin supposedly watched footage of Gaddafi getting sodomised to death every day in the run up to the Ukraine invasion - to remind himself of the true nature of the people he was up against and avoid the same thing happening to him and Russia.

Might makes right, and the Empire only responds to force. Now everybody knows. Except Scott Ritter apparently.

cheers,
I